Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries